Kyle Newton wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Joe Shuttleworth <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Installed: Debian Lenny > I would like feedback on package managers. > 2 I heard of are Apt and Aptitude. > What would be the difference between using these? > Which one would be easier to use? > Can I use these interchangeably (do they know what each other are > doing)? > > Is Apt hard to learn? I looked at the HowTo; some of it seems hard > (Maybe I need to read it a few times). Are there some tutorials for > Apt or > Aptitude that would make this easier? > > Thanks. > > > It was my understanding that apt and aptitude were pretty much the same > thing. Synaptic is a good graphical tool for searching for the packages
No, they are not really the same thing. They all (including synaptic et al.) share the same package database and use the same package installation tool (dpkg) to actually do the installing. > that you would like to install. I'd recommend Synaptic for searching for > packages if you don't know what you are looking for. aptitude search <search term> works just as well. Even better and faster if you use yakuake. Aptitude also has a wonderful feature for removing software that is not used all that often, and for cleaning up dependencies that are no longer needed. If you take the time to get to know aptitude, you can keep a system lean and mean for years, even with major upgrades. I also use "aptitude show <packagename> to get more info on a particular package. For me the CLI has many advantages, of course YMMV.
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